REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Immigration, Geography, and Race/Ethnicity in the United States

在两位新的首席研究员的指导下，这个REU站点是在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校成功运行了20年的类似REU站点的延续。在这个周期中，项目的组织主题“少数群体人口学”侧重于移民对美国种族和族裔人口的地理和社会经济状况的影响。由于移民正在重塑美国的许多种族/少数民族社区，学生们需要学习和研究这些影响。这种跨学科的重点反映了两位新首席研究员的专业知识：内斯托尔·罗德里格斯（社会学系）和丽贝卡·托雷斯（地理与环境学系）。预计被该项目录取的学生将继续是一个多元化的群体，包括代表性不足的少数民族。知识价值。德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校REU网站的智力价值在于，围绕一个对美国非常重要的话题，初级社会科学学者的学术和道德发展。目标是为REU学生提供接触，经验和专业知识。为了实现这些目标，已经制定了精确的计划目标。接触社会人口和地理分析是通过正式的课程和研讨会完成的。除了研究项目外，夏季还举办了一系列专业化讲习班或亲研讨会。在这些支持研讨会上，REU的学生讨论诸如进入研究生院和社会科学家在研究过程中面临的无数伦理问题等问题。REU学生通过三种方式获得具体经验。首先，学生在正式课程中学习有关移民对种族和民族环境影响的社会和空间维度的实质性问题。其次，在编程实验室向学生介绍迁移数据的统计分析，在地理研讨会上向学生介绍空间数据分析。第三，学生将在人口研究中心（PRC）的研究生和教师附属机构的指导下，在暑期项目结束前完成一篇独立的可交付的学术论文。最后，REU学生以两种方式展示他们的专业知识。他们向教师附属机构，研究生和其他受邀学者的聚会展示他们的研究工作，并在旅行支持下，他们将在南方人口统计协会（SDA）的年度秋季会议上展示他们的REU研究论文。更广泛的影响。该方案的主要广泛影响是影响社会科学高等教育的未来，特别关注未来学术劳动力的种族/民族和性别多样性。德州大学奥斯汀分校以前的REU项目的成功已经很明显，包括最近获得博士学位并被安排在领先的研究型大学的学生，一群在全国领先的研究生项目中学习的学生，以及最近完成REU项目并将继续攻读研究生院的学生。

This REU site is the continuation of 20 successful years of running a similar REU Site at the University of Texas at Austin, under the guidance of two new Principal Investigators. For this cycle, the organizing theme "Minority Group Demography" of the program focuses on impacts of immigration on the geography and social and economic conditions of U.S. racial and ethnic populations. Students have much to study and research about these impacts, as immigration is reshaping many U.S. racial/ethnic minority communities. This interdisciplinary focus reflects the expertise of the two new principal investigators: Nestor Rodriguez (Department of Sociology) and Rebecca Torres (Department of Geography and the Environment). It is expected that the students who are accepted into the program will continue to be a diverse group including under-represented minorities.Intellectual Merit. The intellectual merit of this REU Site at UT Austin is the academic and ethical development of junior social science scholars around a topic of immense importance to the United States. The goals are to provide the REU students with exposure, experience, and expertise. Precise program objectives have been developed to accomplish these goals. Exposure to social demography and geographic analysis is accomplished via formal coursework and seminars. In addition to the research projects, a series of professionalization workshops, or pro-seminars, are conducted during the summer. In these pro-seminars, the REU students discuss issues such as getting into graduate school and the myriad ethical concerns that social scientists confront during research. The REU students gain concrete experience in three ways. First, students learn about substantive issues concerning the social and spatial dimensions of impacts of immigration on racial and ethnic settings in the formal course. Second, students are introduced to statistical analysis of migration data in a programming lab and to spatial data analysis in Geography workshops. Third, students experience intense mentoring from Population Research Center (PRC) graduate students and faculty affiliates as they work to produce a stand-alone deliverable scholarly paper by the end of the summer program. Finally, the REU students demonstrate their expertise in two ways. They present their research work to a gathering of faculty affiliates, graduate students, and other invited scholars, and with travel support they will present their REU research papers at the annual fall meeting of the Southern Demographic Association (SDA).Broader impacts. The main broader impact of the program is to influence the future of higher education in the social sciences, with special attention to the racial/ethnic and gender diversity of the future academic workforce. The successes of the previous REU site program at UT Austin are already evident, including students who have recently earned their Ph.D.s and have been placed at leading research universities, a host of students who are in leading graduate programs around the country, and others who have recently completed the REU program and will be moving on to graduate school.